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Nov. 18, 1963 A scuffle broke out during halftime of the football game against Yale when a student on the Yale side was spotted with the head of the tiger suit, which was discovered to be stolen on Saturday morning.

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Number of USG Senate members who voted in favor of an appeal to allow Zach Ogle ’15 to run for USG president.

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FOOTBALL

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Tigers take Ivy League with 59-23 victory over Yale

Emergency meningitis vaccine considered

By Hillary Dodyk senior writer

The football team clinched a share of the Ivy League title and brought Princeton its second consecutive bonfire with a 59-23 victory over Yale Saturday.

A warm, sunny fall day brought with it the largest crowd Powers Field has seen in years, which started the day by honoring the members of the Class of 2014, who would be playing their last game at Princeton Stadium.

“The support was fantastic today, definitely the biggest crowd I’ve ever played in front of, which was awesome,” senior linebacker Phillip Bhaya said. “Even having both sides filled with orange and black was

great, and, as players, we feed off of that.”

The Tiger (8-1 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) offense struggled early, going three-andout on the first two drives of the game.

Junior quarterback Quinn Epperly did not complete a pass until the third drive of the game, midway through the first quarter.

Yale (5-4, 3-3) scored first, finding the end zone to take a 6-0 lead, but sophomore running back Dre Nelson broke a 42-yard run for the first of his two touchdowns on the day on the next drive, giving the Tigers a 7-6 lead. They would never again trail in the game.

“I thought there were some really good adjustments throughout the season,” head coach Bob Surace ’90 said. “We’re going to pick on every mistake so we correct them.”

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The contest was even early on. Epperly found junior wideout Connor Kelley in the end zone on the next drive to give the Tigers a 14-6 advantage, but the Bulldogs quickly cut the lead back to one point with a touchdown of their own.

The Tigers only began to pull away after a botched onside kick by Yale was fielded and returned 46 yards for a touchdown by junior cornerback Jakobi Johnson for a dramatic special teams contribution to the Tiger offensive effort.

“Just had to be ready for it,” Johnson said. “[The] ball popped up, and I saw an opportunity so I took it.”

Another Epperly touchdown — a short pass to sophomore running back DiAndre See FOOTBALL page 3

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USG allows Ogle ’15 In slight increase, 3,831 to run for president apply via early action

By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

Class of 2015 senator Zach Ogle will be allowed to run against USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 in the upcoming presidential elections, the USG Senate decided in a vote on Sunday night.

The vote came after Ogle appealed a decision made by chief elections manager Rachel Nam ’15 last Tuesday, in which she disqualified him from the campaign for failing to submit one Google Doc among several pieces of required paperwork on time.

With this decision, current USG president Jackson will no longer be running unopposed for reelection.

Ogle handed in his candidate statement and signed petition at 4:55 p.m. and 4:58 p.m., respectively, according to the appeal.

The third document, a Google Doc questionnaire, was submitted at 5:02:42 p.m., shortly after

Nam asked Ogle at 5 p.m. whether he had filled it out.

Nam argued that the Elections Handbook clearly states that the deadline for submission is 5 p.m., adding that this rule was emphasized at elections open houses and in the emails about elections.

“I did not say anything beforehand about giving a buffer time to the candidates,” Nam said as part of her argument during the appeal, “so it seemed to me that allowing two minutes and 42 seconds late would be drawing an arbitrary line.”

Ogle argued that he should be allowed to run because the majority of his paperwork was in on time and the only documentation he missed required information that he had already provided in other paperwork.

He added that the rules in the Elections Handbook were made in order to prevent candidates from previewing the other See ELECTION page 4

By Sarah Cen staff writer

The University received 3,831 early action applications as of Nov. 15, a slight increase over the 3,810 applications submitted last year. Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an interview that she expects more applications to trickle in over the next few days as a result of ongoing technical problems with the Common Application website.

Rapelye said the Office of Admission is aiming for a class size of 1,290 students.

Two years ago, 726, or 21.1 percent, of the 3,443 early applicants for the Class of 2016 were accepted, approximately half of the resulting class of 1,357 students. For the Class of 2017, 697, or 18.3 percent, of 3,810 early applicants were accepted, again approximately half of the 1,291 class size.

The yields for early admis-

sion were 83 and 81 percent for the Classes of 2016 and 2017, respectively. These numbers far exceed the 67 percent and 69 percent overall yield, which includes regular applicants, for the same years.

Glitches in a new version of the Common Application released this fall have caused over 50 schools to extend their deadlines for early action applicants, according to The Washington Post. The University’s deadline for the early admissions round, normally scheduled for Nov. 1, was delayed until Nov. 8, according to a press release posted on the Office of Admission website and announcements via Twitter and Facebook.

This is the third consecutive year the University has extended its early action deadline due to unforeseen difficulties. The deadline was extended the first two years See EARLY ACTION page 2

By Emily Tseng managing editor

The University is expected to announce Monday whether it will allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to offer a meningitis vaccine not yet approved for use in the United States to the Princeton community.

Seven University-associated individuals have been hospitalized with the disease since March. In the face of the outbreak, the University Board of Trustees discussed this weekend whether to offer Bexsero, a vaccine produced by Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis, at Princeton, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.

Bexsero is currently licensed for use in Australia and in the European Union but has not yet received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The vaccine targets meningococcal bacteria of serogroup B, the type of bacteria responsible for all the cases in the Princeton outbreak so far.

State law requires all college students living in dorms to receive a licensed meningococcal vaccine, but the vaccines currently available in the United States only cover serogroups A, C, Y and W-135. The CDC submitted an Investigational New Drug application to the FDA in October requesting that Bexsero be made available to the Princeton community due to the nature of the campus outbreak, NBC News reported.

CDC meningitis and vaccine preventable diseases branch head Dr. Thomas Clark confirmed to NBC News Friday afternoon that the CDC had agreed to import Bexsero for use in the Princeton community.

Meningococcal bacteria are spread through close contact between humans, such as coughing, sneezing and sharing utensils. According to the University’s most recent health See CDC page 2

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advisory email, it is estimated that 5 to 25 percent of the general population carries the bacteria without developing symptoms of illness.

The first and second University-associated cases this year, reported on March 25 and April 12, involved a female student and a male visitor to campus, respectively. In total, 10 people who were considered to have been in close contact with the affected individuals were given prophylactic treatment by UHS. The third and fourth cases, reported May 7 and May 20, both involved male students.

In the fourth case, which occurred near the end of the University’s spring examinations period, the student developed symptoms while traveling from campus to his home state, where he was hospitalized. The New Jersey Department of Health designated the cases as an outbreak after the fourth case.

The fifth case involved a male University student hospitalized abroad on June 30 after being diagnosed with bacterial meningitis during an academic trip. Fourteen other students who were on the trip received preventive treatment.

The sixth case involved a female University student treated at a local hospital for meningococcal disease on Oct. 2. She reported to University Health Services with a high fever and was referred to the hospital for treatment. In her case, the bacteria did not infect her brain and spinal cord but instead resided in her blood-

stream, according to an email sent to residential college advisers by Dr. Peter Johnsen, director of medical services at UHS, and obtained by The Daily Princetonian.

Meningitis can be treated with antibiotics. All six individuals have since recovered, according to the University.

The seventh case involved a male University student who became ill with symptoms of meningitis on Nov. 10. The student sought treatment at UHS Saturday for symptoms of acute illness, according to a health advisory email sent to all undergraduate students. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Starting with the third reported case, the University has issued health advisory emails encouraging all students who experience symptoms of bacterial meningitis, including a high fever, headache or stiff neck, to report to UHS. The University has also posted reminders with information on meningococcal disease in bathrooms and dining halls, in addition to providing alcohol-based hand sanitizer and tissues at all event headquarters and meal sites.

Alumni and visitors returning to campus for Reunions weekend in May received hygiene reminders in their welcome materials.

In order to combat the spread of the disease on campus, the Student Health Advisory Board distributed reusable drinking cups to the student body at the start of the semester in September.

The red cups said, “Mine. Not Yours.” and were intended to remind students not to share cups with others.

By Anna Windemuth contributor

Student council volunteers gathered $2,400 to support the victims of Typhoon Haiyan through the charitable organizations Oxfam International, Catholic Relief Services and Stiftung Solarenergie by selling T-shirts at the Princeton/ Yale football game this weekend, according to Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne.

The United Nations has put the typhoon’s death toll at 4,200 people as of Saturday, although the Philippine government has insisted that the death toll is closer to 3,637, NBC News reported. The storm, which struck on the morning of Nov. 8, was one of the strongest in recorded history, according to CNN. T-shirts were sold for $10 at the football game and will still be available for purchase through the Office of Undergraduate Students and at the bonfire on Sunday, according to Dunne. Additional funds were gathered in front of Lewis Library and Fine Hall, and at the Triangle Club performances.

The International Crisis Response Group, a University platform for coordinating relief efforts, met on Thursday to discuss the University’s role in addressing the crisis, while an ad hoc committee to mobilize relief efforts was formed at a meeting organized by the University’s Pace Center for Civic Engagement.

The committee comprises four student action groups including awareness and communications, fundraising, events, and community connections, according to

Pace Center Communications Coordinator Gwen McNamara.

One member of the awareness and communications group is Raya Buensuceso ’17, a student from the Philippines who has manned an awareness table in Frist Campus Center along with other students since last Tuesday to raise awareness and encourage donations.

While the awareness table was unable to accept donations last week due to its lack of official recognition as a student group, Buensuceso said, the Pace Center has now obtained permission for the table to accept donations, and it will accept cash contributions this coming week. In the meantime, people wishing to donate have been directed to interaction.org, a website unaffiliated with the University that suggests organizations to donate to for disaster relief.

She added that the group may place donation boxes in the dining halls and may arrange additional awareness events in the future.

“I’m from the Philippines, so I felt that it was my obligation to help out,” Buensuceso said of her motivation to man the table.

Buensuceso also posted in the Class of 2017 Facebook group shortly after the disaster to raise awareness and encourage donations.

Quiogue is also a contributor for The Daily Princetonian.

The meeting was attended by representatives from various student organizations, including the USG, Music is Medicine and Old NasSoul, as well from the Pace Center and the Office of Religious Life.

The group planned to take advantage of the influx of alumni during Homecoming

weekend to collect funds and discuss current awareness of the issue on campus, publicity and the most effective allocation of prospective donations.

“I think we should fulfill the University’s informal motto, ‘in the nation’s service and in the service of all nations,’ by really coming together and showing our solidarity and support. I think we should show the world that we really do care,” president of the University’s International Employees Group, IEGAP, Florevel Fusin-Wischusen said.

She also said that the University should follow Yale’s lead by publicizing its support for relief efforts on its official website. An announcement encouraging those affected by the typhoon to seek support from community members has since been posted on the Davis International Center website by its director, Jacqueline Leighton.

Although the IEGAP tried to collect donations earlier, University policy forbids staff members from soliciting contributions. Instead, staff members have the option of supporting efforts led by students or the Office of Religious Life.

Several people attending the meeting mentioned a lack of awareness on campus, which they attributed to the isolated nature of Princeton’s privileged community.

Many agreed that, while it is important to provide aid for Tacloban, the largest city in one of the hardest-hit areas of the Philippines, other, more remote regions with less or no media coverage also need support.

In a subsequent meeting, student members of the fundraising committee selected two U.S.-based organizations

recommended by the University, Oxfam and Catholic Relief Services, as well as Stiftung Solarenergie, an organization led by Princeton trustee Jaime Ayala ’84 that focuses on providing solar lamps to victims.

“Of course we want to address short-term issues, but also we want to be able to have a longer relationship with the organizations we’re working with. We know that recovery is not going to be overnight,” Ricardo de Los Reyes ’17, a member of the fundraising committee, said.

A benefit concert for victims of the typhoon is currently in the works for early December.

Student performance groups such as the HighSteppers and the Tigertones expressed interest in uniting the arts community for relief efforts, according to 2017 Class Council Officer Nathan Suek ’17.

“The great thing about the benefit concert is that it does two things at once: It promotes class unity because you’re bringing people together behind a common cause, and at the same time, you’re benefiting the community,” Suek said.

The a cappella group Old NasSoul will be collecting donations at its next arch sing this Thursday, and the Frist awareness table will continue to be manned this week.

Students who wish to contribute to relief efforts should visit the Pace Center’s website, where they can find more information on the student committees and events on campus.

Any students who plan on collecting funds should contact the Pace Center beforehand “to understand proper protocols for collection and distribution of collected funds,” McNamara said.

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due to hurricane-related power outages.

According to Rapelye, the Office of Admission will continue to accept applications over the next few days to accommodate students experiencing issues submitting through the Common Application.

“We’re trying to be as flexible as possible if students are having trouble applying. There’s always a little bit of fluctuation in

the number of applicants right now,” Rapelye explained. “We want to make sure that everyone who had intended to apply or wanted to apply can. Sometimes students who already applied thought they were regular decision but want to be early action and let us know. And if we can process them, we will.”

Since Oct. 10, the Office of Admission has allowed students to apply through the Universal College Application, an alternative to the Common Application that is currently used by 40 schools.

The University reinstated the

early admission application process in 2011 following Harvard College’s announcement that it would reinstate the process, just five years after it first followed Harvard in eliminating the binding early decision option. Rapelye explained that the Office of Admission wanted to avoid making premature conclusions about the successes and concerns with early action until it had sufficient data.

“This will be our third year with an early action process, and after this year we will have a three-year trend line. But we

are still in the midst of reading applications and making decisions, so we don’t really make predictions,” Rapelye said when asked about the state of early action at the University.

Students applying through early action can be accepted, rejected or deferred to the regular applicant pool. Decisions for early admission will be released in mid-December, with the exact date to be determined. Applicants will receive their decisions online and by mail, and those accepted will have until May 1 to enroll.

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Atwater followed by a nice run and a dive into the end zone — and a field goal from sophomore kicker Nolan Bieck gave the Tigers a 31-16 lead going into halftime.

The field goal came after the Bulldogs blocked Bieck’s first attempt, but the play was nullified because Yale had called a timeout prior to the snap.

Senior defensive back Phillip Bhaya also contributed to the scoring effort with a pick-six in his last game on Powers Field.

The score broke the Ivy League single-season scoring record set

by Harvard in 2012, making this the highest-scoring offense in Ti-

ger history. Epperly’s final touchdown of the day, a completion to senior wideout Roman Wilson, put the Tigers over the 400-point mark for the season.

“Obviously we didn’t have too much success in the beginning [four years ago], but we’ve come a long way. We stayed together as a group, and I’m so proud of my teammates, so humbled to be a part of this class,” Bhaya said.

“To go out like this really is something special.”

Senior defensive lineman Greg Sotereanos, senior defensive back Elijah Mitchell and junior linebacker Mike Zeuli each added a sack. Freshman defensive back Dorian Williams led the team with 12 tackles.

The Tigers will finish their sea-

son at Dartmouth next Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Hanover. A win would earn them sole possession of the Ivy League title, as would a Harvard loss to Yale.

“We do not want to share this title in any way or form,” Epperly said after the game. “I think there’d be no better way to send these seniors out of a season like this, but that’s been the goal since day one — to win a championship — and I think it would leave a bitter taste in everyone’s mouth if we had to share that. So we’re going to enjoy tonight, but tomorrow we’re going to come ready to work and prepare to win.”

The 26th “Big Three” bonfire celebrating the sweep of both Harvard and Yale will take place Sunday night on Cannon Green.

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Junior quarterback Quinn Epperly hit senior receiver Roman Wilson for a touchdown in the third quarter.

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Sophomore running back Dre Nelson rushed for 77 yards and two touchdowns in the Homecoming victory.

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Senior receiver Roman Wilson had 115 yards and a touchdown in his final game at Princeton Stadium.

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candidates before deciding whether or not to run. Since he had already proven his intention to run by submitting the other paperwork, he said, he was not trying to gain an unfair advantage.

“I think, most importantly, the election manager’s decision created an uncontested race for president,” Ogle said. “In USG, we’ve talked a lot about trying to get fewer uncontested races and having more discussion in the democratic process, so I think it’s an improvement to not have an uncontested race, especially for one of the top positions of president.”

The Senate found that Ogle’s late submission did not give him an unfair advantage since he had already declared his candidacy before the deadline.

“The Senate did not set a precedent of allowing late registration or disregard of the rules,” vice president Carmina Mancenon ’14 said in a statement on behalf of the Senate. “Rather, the Senate determined that the intent of the rule was to prevent a single candidate from previewing the field of candidates in the process of making his or her decision to run for a particular position.”

Mancenon added that the decision shows the “importance of the appeals process in ensuring a fair election that furthers democracy.”

The appeal was sponsored by six members of the senate: U-Councilor Azza Cohen ’16, Class of 2016 senator Ella Cheng, Class of 2014 senator John McNamara, Campus and Community Affairs chair Trap Yates ’14, Undergraduate Student Life Committee chair Greg Smith ’15 and U-Councilor Yifan Zhu ’15.

Cheng is also a staff news writer for The Daily Princetonian. Yates is a former associate editor for Street.

The appeal, which required a twothirds majority, passed by a vote of 19 in favor, two opposed and zero abstaining.

Members of the Senate discussed the decision for close to an hourand-a-half. Jackson, Ogle, Nam and

all non-voting members were barred from the “super executive session” for the discussion.

“I’m glad the Senate upheld my status as a candidate, and I look forward to the productive discussions and exchange of ideas that will happen over the course of the campaign,” Ogle said. “I’m excited to campaign, and I’m excited for students to get to hear my ideas and what I think.”

Though Ogle said it was “unfortunate” that he missed out on some potential campaigning time, he’s still “confident.”

Jackson said he respected the decision of the Senate and said he thought “their logic was sound.”

“I guess, moving forward, instead of focusing on just gathering student ideas and asking them what their concerns are about USG,” Jackson said, “I’ll be doing that in addition to telling them what my specific ideas are going into the year and how I can distinguish myself from the other candidate.”

According to Academics Committee chair Dillon Sharp ’14, the Senate faced a similar decision in the spring of 2011 when a candidate for social chair submitted campaign materials after the deadline. After that incident, a committee revised the Elections Handbook to make the submission deadline more explicitly strict, Sharp said.

The candidates will campaign throughout the week before voting starts next Monday. A debate will be held Friday at which they will discuss their platforms.

In addition to the special session devoted to the election decision, the USG Senate discussed its regular business. Student Groups Recognition Committee chair Benny Wagstaff ’14 presented three new student groups to the Senate. The Princeton University American Sign Language Club will give students the opportunity to appreciate and understand deaf culture and ASL, 80,000 Hours will give students resources to find careers with the greatest social impact and the Princeton Songwriters Society will let students come together to write and perform their own songs.

By Jacqueline Gufford and Regina Wang Contributor and Senior Writer

Colleges and universities nationwide have “betrayed” victims of rape and sexual assault by failing to punish perpetrators of rape, forensic scientist David Lisak said in a lecture at the University on Friday. He advocated a greater emphasis on bystander intervention than is seen in most college sexual assault prevention programs.

Speaking to an audience of mostly University administrative officials who were nearly all female, Lisak emphasized the role of the institutional power structure in confronting the issue of sexual assault on campus. A comprehensive program initiated and supported by the University administration would be the most effective way to prevent sexual assault, he argued.

“Princeton is responsible for Princeton’s community,” Lisak said. Currently a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lisak has worked with the United States Air Force and various universities on sexual assault prevention and policy.

To give context on the incidence of sexual assault on college campuses, Lisak discussed the methodology of a study he conducted on male students at Duke University. In his study, potential rapists were first identified by questionnaires which avoided using direct labels like rape or sexual assault to overcome subject reticence.

“We found people will respond to these questions amazingly openly,” Lisak said. “The basic reason is because these guys don’t see this as rape.”

In a video dramatizing an interview he conducted for the study, a Duke student and fraternity member described how

he and his frat brothers identified targets, who were typically innocent, attractive freshman girls, then provided a graphic account of how he continued to provide his target with drinks before bringing her to a prepared room where he had sex with her despite her protests and “wiggling.” He noted that the rapists often had a delusion that their victims had “done this a thousand times before.”

Lisak has determined that this behavior only represented a subculture of Duke’s campus and even of its fraternity community.

5 percent of college-age males admit to actions psychologists judge to be rape. 3 percent of those are serial rapists, according to data cited by Lisak. He claimed that student outreach programs emphasizing the importance of consent will not stop these serial rapists because they do not address the various psychological factors at play.

This includes the online “Unless There’s Consent” program, implemented for the Class of 2017 this fall, he explained in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

“There is no way that we are going to realistically prevent them somehow through education from committing sexual assault. That’s why we have to have mechanisms to identify who these people are and mechanisms to get them out of the community,” he said, noting that many institutions typically punish sexual assault with suspension.

“The idea that you adjudicate someone responsible for sexual assault and suspend them is, to me, ludicrous. If someone is responsible for sexual assault, they need to be expelled from the community permanently.

Period,” Lisak said.

Lisak advocated the use of a

multilayered prevention program emphasizing bystander intervention; he cited education programs about driving under the influence of alcohol as an example. In the last 25 years of alcohol education, social norms have been changed regarding drinking and driving intervention, Lisak pointed out. He thinks that a similar approach to bystander education and intervention could be equally effective over time.

“We want people to feel obligated to step in,” he said, adding that these programs can also contribute to general community well-being and should be seen as essential to educating responsible citizens.

University psychology professor Elizabeth Levy Paluck and psychology department chair Deborah Prentice also took the stage to offer insights on how to deal with instances of sexual aggression.

“Even though this guy is a very particular kind of individual — and it sounds like it is particular kinds of individuals who are serial rapists — they are supported by the community, wittingly and unwittingly,” Prentice said. In order for a rapist to normalize his behavior, Prentice explained, he needs people around him to support it or at least not flag it as inappropriate. She said that this “silent majority” should be the critical targets of intervention strategies, saying that, if some challenged inappropriate behavior, others in the majority would be more open about expressing their discomfort.

Paluck described particular efforts that have been made to change social norms and behavior in high-school and middleschool contexts by targeting certain influential students, whom she identified as students with a lot of connections,

such as those who were clique leaders of any tightly knit social or extracurricular group.

The targeted students were then asked to spread the message throughout their networks that certain kinds of behavior were not appropriate. Paluck said this strategy was so successful that it was also expanded to middle schools.

Paluck and Prentice both noted that influential individuals could be identified from a number of different groups within Princeton, including residential colleges and eating clubs. Paluck also noted that the Princeton identity itself was a very strong one.

“One thing that’s special about Princeton is everyone feels identified to Princeton, so you have a real shot to identify campus-wide norms,” Prentice said.

Lisak had previously spoken at Princeton in September 2012.

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n july and september of this year, the Princeton Alumni Weekly celebrated ............................... the long life and upcoming demolition of the Butler Apartments: the barrack-like tract of small frame houses, first opened on Christmas in 1946, that replaced Princeton’s polo field. Apparently made of ticky-tacky, these little shacks have housed generations of Princeton students. At first many marecently, the undergraduate student are not likely to convince people to run. Contacting speried returnees from the Second World War lived in government announced the candidates runcific students because of their experience would have them, but from the 1960s on, Butler has been graduate ning in its upcoming 2013 elections. Several the effect of encouraging individuals to run who may territory. of these candidates, initially including those have not considered it. Such students may not know that The Butler Apartments were designed to last only running for President and Vice President, are running their experience would be a valuable addition to the USG a few years, and they look it. In 1975, when my wife in uncontested elections. Because of a special decision and would thus not be willing to run unless specifically and I arrived in Princeton, we couldn’t believe that by the USG senate, however, this year’s presidential elec- contacted. Further, the USG has several committees and students lived there — especially when we heard their tion will be contested. Uncontested elections are not a positions that could be uniquely served by the input of stories about feeble heaters, leaky floors and papernew problem for the USG. The Editorial Board believes students with leadership experience in a variety of stuthin walls. Over time, however, we also learned about that uncontested elections, especially those for the dent groups. The Board particularly hopes that the USG Butler’s low rents and high spirit of community. It highest positions in the Student Government, limit the might reach out to leaders of student groups that are trano longer surprises us that when former graduate diversity of opinion in the USG and ultimately prevent ditionally underrepresented in student government— students visit us, in the patch of faculty houses across accurate representation of the University community. student athletes being just one example of a group that from Butler, they find time for nostalgic trips across We are thus encouraged by the fact that this year’s presi- may merit more targeted outreach.

Hartley Avenue to take pictures of the units where dential election will be contested. In order to decrease This is not to say that specific individuals on campus they shivered through New Jersey winters. the number of unopposed elections in future years, the should be tapped for positions; rather, targeted outreach This summer, the University plans to demolish Board suggests that the administration give the USG a should be used encourage students to apply for commitButler: The shacks, and the streets named after dead more legitimate role in University decision making and tees or run for Senator or U-Councilor. This would give admirals, will become green space. This is all part that the USG change the way it reaches out to students. these students the experience needed to run for Presiof a larger set of changes. Until recently, Hibben and Uncontested elections could be the unfortunate condent or Vice President later on, thereby increasing the Magie, a grim pair of buildings that looked as if they sequence of the University’s relationship with their stuprobability that elections are contested. Competitive had floated to Princeton from East Germany, loomed dent government. It may be that the University has not elections serve as dialogues in which issues and soluover Lake Carnegie. Now the handsome new Lakeside given the USG enough power to make meaningful chang- tions are openly discussed and thus serve to improve buildings will provide low-rise apartments, costly es to the campus community. While the Student Govern- our Princeton experiences. Increasing and diversifybut comfortable, for just over 700 graduate students. ment can suggest changes, the University reserves the ing student involvement at the lower levels of the USG Once Butler and Stanworth are demolished, however, right to ignore or even act against these recommendawould not only make it more likely that fewer elections the total number of graduate student residences will tions. Further, the University’s lack of recognition of the in the future are like this year’s, but would also make the be smaller than it was. A few years ago, the University USG’s efforts could additionally make a student governorganization more representative of the student body. could house something like 80 percent of the graduate ment tenure a less rewarding experience than it could be, The Board believes that uncontested elections are a student body — pretty much everyone who wanted discouraging students from running for these positions. major issue that both the University administration and a place. In the future, it aims to accommodate 70 While it is impossible to tell if these factors are directthe student government must work to address. Balancpercent. ly causing the uncontested elections, this much is clear: ing the relationships between the University and its stu Students who come to Princeton for graduate study the University should be concerned that its students do dent government and targeting outreach efforts are simbuck a generational trend. Back in the ’70s and ’80s, not want be a part of its student government. ply proposals that may promote competitive elections. when “Wolfen” and “Escape from New York” seemed One possible way to encourage more people to run What is clear, though, is that the University adminislike documentaries, Princeton was attractive. It is by reaching out to student leaders around campus. tration, the USG, or both bodies, need to take steps in offered calm and safety. But the world has moved on, While emails sent out to the entire undergraduate stuorder to decrease the likelihood of future unopposed and urban crime rates have plummeted. Nowadays, dent body are an effective way to cast a wide net, they elections. graduates of elite colleges and universities stream toward city lights like highly educated lemmings.

Our graduate students — products of very similar institutions — make a counter-cultural choice when they decide to spend their 20s in central New Jersey.

Why do this? Princeton has a fine faculty — but so do Harvard and Yale, Columbia and Berkeley.

Princeton offers good stipends — but some of our rivals provide better ones. The special thing that

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Princeton has to offer graduate students is similar to the special thing it offers undergraduates: community. Come to Princeton, we tell prospective students, and you’ll join a close-knit graduate student body and work intensively, day after day and week after week, with your teachers. That’s the only reason why we build apartments in the first place. To quote the graduate housing website: “University housing is central to Princeton’s goal of creating a community of scholars.”

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The sentiment sounds properly warm and fuzzy. But the policies behind it don’t. In fact, we plan to offer students places for their first three years on campus, with some possibility of a fourth. Go away to carry out your dissertation research — as many students do — or simply stay on while you’re working on the dissertation, often with less financial support, and Mother Princeton hands you an eviction notice. So much for community.

The University authorities have their reasons, of course. They emphasize the difficulty of paying for the endless repairs needed to keep the Butler houses from collapsing into the Jersey mud they rest on. They note that the buildings are neither adapted for people with disabilities nor friendly to the environment. And they point out that in housing 70 percent of graduate students, they fulfill the University’s plans and match the performance of sister institutions.

But the practical reasons for tearing Butler down don’t seem more urgent now than they have been for decades. The policy of housing 70 percent was framed long ago, at a time when Princeton was very different: a time when old houses were rented cheaply to students instead of being torn down to make way for McMansions — and when the cities weren’t equipped with warm beacons like the one at the end of Daisy’s pier. Saying that Princeton does as well as peer institutions is not an argument at all. Given our resources, we should be cleaning their clocks and forcing them to do better — as we did, so admirably, when it came to financial aid for undergraduates.

If students have to pay high rents to live in Princeton — and the rents in the new buildings have to be high, to cover their costs — some will decide not to come at all. Others will come, but they will spend most or all of their Princeton years in New York or Philadelphia.

And a good many more senior students will decide, understandably, that it makes more sense to pay an exorbitant rent in a city that boasts more than three bars and coffee shops, rather than a very high one in an apartment complex on a New Jersey road that doesn’t have sidewalks. Once again, so much for community.

These days, the University talks a good game when it comes to graduate students: It encourages them to see themselves as full members of the University while here, to return for Reunions and reunion conferences, like the excellent one that just took place, and, of course, to give money. Keeping the bulldozers away for the moment, holding discussions as opposed to information sessions and rethinking current policies would be a simple and effective way to show that the fine words are backed by substance.

Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History. He can be reached at grafton@ princeton.edu.

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t may be time to open Pandora’s box. I am speaking, of course, about the feasibility of integrating mixed modes of learning into Princeton’s humanities courses. Last month, in an article addressing the disillusionment with massive open online courses, Bennett McIntosh ’16 argued that the most preferable educational model is one in which faceto-face interactivity prospers over the “mono-directional” trend of online educational services like Coursera.

He says it is especially critical that the liberal arts encourage the personal encounters that characterize lecture halls. Whereas learning in the presence of professors and peers (see: precepts) allows one to appreciate the sense of community peculiar to a college campus, simply watching videos complicates one’s ability to acquire “critical thinking [skills and] a functional personal ethics system.”

While I understand the valuation of conventional modes of learning, I would like to expand on (and slightly modify) this approach. I am more inclined to align my views with those proposed by Lauren Davis ’15 in her own column on MOOCs. Although Davis shares McIntosh’s sentiments about the irreplaceable function of the university campus, she acknowledges that Princeton will need to “borrow

some of the innovations offered by the MOOC model” to maintain its status as a top-tier learning institution. One way the University might enhance its courses, she said, is by employing the “flipped” lecture model, which is popular among some of the nation’s leading schools. The flipped classroom is a form of blended teaching in which students watch lecture videos on their own and later apply theoretical concepts in group sessions.

Last Friday, the ‘Prince’ featured a story by Elizabeth Paul on the mixed responses to the flipped format of COS 226: Data Structures and Algorithms, a class designed to revolve around an online instructional component.

Although the flipped element was eventually made optional, Paul notes, “flipped lectures could provide students [with] the opportunity to more deeply explore course material.”

Similarly, I believe the most ideally integrated online courses would supplement traditional learning methods instead of supplanting them.

The question of humanities-related MOOCs persists, though. While it may be simpler to render mathematical and scientific concepts on a screen, complications seem to arise when we talk about subjects such as English, history and philosophy, whose longevity has been dependent upon dialogic exchange.

In a study conducted at the University of British Columbia, a group of English professors and teaching assistants replaced biweekly lectures with online work, combining this

with weekly discussion groups similar to precepts. Using a class website, the instructors, who were teaching a nonfiction prose class, offered their students various interpretations of class readings, observations on the essays’ argumentative structures and additional elements that would increase the students’ sense of instructional autonomy. The teachers would emphasize to their students that they were reading opinions of works, not definitive conclusions. In addition, student-guided discussion boards challenged these pupils to reconsider the meaning of academic authority and undermine the assumptions of objective truths. The students assumed the roles of creator and spectator, no longer exclusively bound by the walls of the lecture hall. Moreover, the mixed-mode class was optional. By opening avenues for student participation instead of closing them, these instructors created a class that balanced contemporary and classical pedagogies. Students responded well to the class, which was ultimately considered a success, and the professors accomplished their goal: to create a course that didn’t oppose conventional teaching, but established a framework in which to explore a new, diversified learning environment.

Like my fellow columnists, I have reason to doubt that online courses will supersede professors. There is something admirable about the near-theatricality of lectures and the spontaneity of precept discussions.

Instead of avoiding MOOCs because

of their unfamiliarity, however, it may behoove academia to consider how they could be reconciled with traditionally accepted modes of teaching. The distinction between what can be accomplished online and in-person is often subtle. In the example cited above, the professors concluded that their class encouraged a pluralistic type of thinking by which students could interpret information in various ways: rapidly or gradually, privately or communally.

I can imagine how the HUM sequence might be enhanced if an online component were made available. In a video, the six professors could debate about conflicting interpretations of a text. With the consultation of multimedia experts, subjects such as music, visual art and archaeology could be represented in ways not afforded by a lecture.

The options are innumerable. The complexity of integration, however, should not be understated. Although I am receptive to the notion of hybrid humanities courses, the success of MOOCs is contingent upon student initiative and professorial innovation, among other considerations. Still, I do not believe that MOOCs will make face-to-face interactivity obsolete in the near future. Rather than shying away from unorthodox teaching methods, it may well be time for experimentation.

Aaron Robertson is a freshman from Detroit, Mich. He can be reached at aaroncr@princeton.edu.

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was fed by freshman defenseman Tyler Davis. The 5-4 win marked Princeton’s second overtime victory over Dartmouth this season.

The following night saw the Tigers take on another Ivy rival, Harvard. Neither team struck the net until 13:37 into the first period, when Harvard’s Sean Malone put the puck past an outstretched Bonar off a def lection. No more goals came until the third period.

The Tigers tallied 21 shots on goal through two periods against Harvard’s Steve Michalek, who would go on to record 32 saves in his team’s win.

Three minutes into the final period, Princeton managed to beat Michalek to level the score at 1-1. The goal came via an odd-man rush while the Tigers were down a man. Junior defenseman Aaron Ave received the puck from Brockett and scored to tie.

With 13:26 left in regulation, the Crimson opened up a three-goal tear in which they beat Bonar and the Princeton defense for three goals in under two-and-a-half minutes.

Tyler Moy scored an unassisted goal that would prove to be the game-winner on a power play. Harvard’s Jimmy Vesey netted his team’s fourth goal with just over 10 minutes remaining.

A beautifully executed rush by the Tigers narrowed the lead to two, with Berger feeding Ambrosia feeding Kessel-

man, who ripped one past the Harvard tendie.

With just over two minutes remaining, a wild charge by Harvard led to a Princeton power play. After a time-out, the home side pulled Bonar and put six skaters against Harvard’s four.

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“I think we’ll really focus on having strong starts and playing a full 60-minute game.” senior Jack Berger

scored his team’s third goal.

In spite of a bevy of tight chances and just-wide shots, Princeton’s man-up offense could not net the tying goal.

Vesey found the puck and slid it past the empty crease to put the game out of reach as time expired.

“I think we’ll really focus on having strong starts,” Berger said, “and playing a full 60-minute game. There definitely were some good spans of play, but we need to clean it up and eliminate some of the chances we’re giving our opponents as we really commit to playing a full 60 minutes.”

The gentlemen of Princeton hockey will play the sixth game of this homestand Friday at 7 p.m. against Quin-

nipiac.

The women’s hockey team (5-2-1 overall, 4-2 ECAC) hosted the University of New Hampshire and No. 5 Boston College Friday and Saturday afternoons, making it a home double-doubleheader at Baker Rink. A win over UNH (6-6-2, 2-2-2 Hockey East) and a 1-1 tie with the Eagles (9-3-1, 5-1) extended the Tigers’ unbeaten streak to five games.

In contrast to recent men’s games, the Boston College showdown was a low-scoring affair. Nonetheless, the home and away sides tallied 34 and 33 shots on goal, respectively. Sophomore goalie Kimberley Newell held tough, however, and none of the five attempts by the Eagles in the extra period proved a game-winner.

The first goal of the contest came 11:10 into the second period as Boston College’s Haley Skarupa struck on a power play.

With 6:04 remaining in the next period, freshman forward Kelsey Koelzer tipped in a shot by her classmate, forward Tucker Cassidy, for the first goal of her career.

The Tigers would manage to keep a strong BC team from regaining the lead.

The women of Princeton hockey have not tasted defeat since the Nov. 1 matchup with Cornell, and they have improved to 4-2-1 . Next weekend, the women will play games three and four of a five-game home series against conference rivals Clarkson and St. Lawrence.

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Junior forward Cameron Porter scored twice, propelling his team to a 3-2 victory over Yale to close out its 2013 campaign. The Tigers (7-9-1 overall, 4-2-1 Ivy League) fell short of winning the Ivy League but closed out their season on a high note, and Porter’s goals put him atop the league standings in points and goals with 21 points and nine goals.

Junior defender/midfielder Andrew Miller assisted all three of Princeton’s goals, which were scored after the Bulldogs (4-112, 2-3-2) went up 2-0 early in the game. After those scores, senior goalkeeper Seth MacMillan dug in to win his last college game, making two saves and earning his sixth win.

Wrestling: Five wrestlers place in top six to begin season

Sophomore Kevin Moylan, freshman Matthew Gancayco, senior Ryan Callahan, sophomore Abe Ayala and junior Adam Krop all reached the podium in the Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open. Krop’s third-place showing came in his first match back from an ACL injury that sidelined him for all of last season. Gancayco wrestled hard and showed poise, winning 3-2 to secure the sixth-place spot in the 165-pound class. Another freshman, Brett Harner, reached the quarterfinals and barely missed placing.

Women’s volleyball: Tigers finish strong against Brown

Princeton split its final week-

end the season, falling 1-3 to Yale on Friday before beating Brown in three straight sets on Saturday night. The rookie class had a standout night against the Bulldogs: Outside Cara Mattaliano had a team-high 14 kills, while pin hitter Kendall Peterkin followed with 13 kills. Despite taking the opening set in a decisive 25-18, the Tigers were unable to upset Ivy League champion Yale. The next day’s game went far better for Princeton, as the Tigers finished off the Bears in three straight sets 25-20, 25-22 and 25-19. The close to Princeton’s season showed mixed results: The Tigers finished 10-14 overall and 6-8 in the Ivy League.

Princeton will graduate four seniors from the Class of 2013 but will return its entire starting lineup next year.

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would not relinquish with just under five minutes left in the half.

The Tigers went on a 15-5 run over the last five minutes to go into halftime up 41-32. Marist stayed in contention for about 10 minutes after that, but with 11 minutes to go Princeton pulled away with a 13-4 scoring tear that saw three-pointers from sophomore guards Michelle Miller and Annie Tarakchian and junior guard Blake Dietrick. That stretch put the game out of the Red Foxes’ reach for good.

Head coach Courtney Banghart said before the game that her team was still

experimenting with different lineups, and that experimentation was evident in the box score. Twelve of the Tigers’ 14 players scored, and five scored in the double digits. The bench accounted for 30 points, and many contributors were young players, an excellent sign for a team that recently graduated its top scorer.

A particularly bright spot for Banghart’s team was the performance of freshman guard Vanessa Smith, who put up 11 points and had six rebounds in her second collegiate game. The rookie seems to have settled in already, as she scored seven against Rutgers in the season-opener.

Junior guard Mariah Smith led the Tigers with

seven rebounds. The defense played physically for the second consecutive game, out-rebounding the Red Foxes 49-23. Smith, Helmstetter and sophomore forward Alex Wheatley pulled down five defensive rebounds each, making up for a 20-11 turnover deficit.

After washing the taste of the Rutgers loss out of their mouths, the Tigers will be back in action against a regional rival Tuesday night, when they face Rider. The Broncs (1-2) had a rough start to their season but got in the win column Thursday with a 62-48 home win over LIU Brooklyn. Princeton will head to Washington, D.C. after its trip to Lawrenceville, taking on Georgetown on Saturday, Nov. 23.

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Owens, improving consistently, crossed the line in 30:25 to complete the tight 36-second one-to-five spread. Owens is also a contributor for The Daily Princetonian sports.

All five of the runners, plus sixth man junior Matt McDonald in 20th place, earned All-Region honors. No. 20 Villanova won the meet with 34 points, while No. 15 Princeton secured second with 60.

With a young team in which no one has been to the national meet before, the Princeton women finally made it back to the big stage after a twoyear dry spell. While regionals wasn’t perfect, the Tigers got the job done by placing well enough in their regular season performances to push them into the next round.

“There was a significant chance that we weren’t going to make it. On the ride back, [Director of Operations] Mike Henderson was trying to do the math as results came in from

regionals across the country,” junior captain Emily de La Bruyere said. “I still don’t think it’s sunk in. There are a lot of goals we set for ourselves, but in many ways making it to nationals is the biggest one.”

In a welcome shift of race strategy from the blitz start at Heps, the regionals 6K race went out slowly. The lead pack went through the first mile in 5:32, nearly 20 seconds faster than the Ivy League Championships pace.

“The goal was to run a conservative and controlled, strong race, and then let it out in the last bit. We were crawling, but it was exactly the way I wanted the race to be,” de La Bruyere said.

Putting themselves in the mix at the front, de La Bruyere and freshman Megan Curham hung on as the pace heated up.

“There was a pretty significant shift from crawling to racing,” de La Bruyere said. “The first 2K was a crawl, the second 2K was an honest pace and the last 2K was a throwdown.”

Digging deep over the last kilometer, Curham finished

fifth in 20:13. De La Bruyere followed shortly after in 20:25, placing 13th. Both de La Bruyere and Curham earned All-Region honors.

Junior Lindsay Eysenbach finished next in 36th, trailed by sophomores Kathryn Fluehr and Kathryn Little in 38th and 43rd, respectively.

Villanova surprised the crowd to narrowly win with 31 points, followed by No. 4 Georgetown with 35, No. 30 Penn State with 92, No. 24 West Virginia with 124 and then No. 22 Princeton in fifth with 135.

“We’re clearly over the moon about making it to nationals, but it wasn’t quite the showing that we think we are capable of. It almost feels like we got a second chance to prove ourselves,” de La Bruyere said.

“Now we have nothing to lose.

We just have to run our best.”

The Tigers have a week to recover and prepare both mentally and physically before they toe the line Saturday in Terre Haute, Ind. “We’re hoping that, come nationals, we can all have our day and do big things,” Ar-

royo Yamin said. “We’re fit, we’re ready, we’re talented — we need to believe it, because we are.”

Especially for the men, where three of the top five runners are seniors, this last race at the “Big Dance” is meaningful. Capping off one of the most consistent four-year streaks in Princeton history, the seniors have one last shot to give it the old college try.

“It’s nostalgic for me. My first cross-country race ever was at Terre Haute, and now my last cross-country race will be there as well,” Arroyo Yamin, who went to high school in Indiana, said. “It’s my chance to find out my limits and have fun with it.

I want to rep Princeton and hopefully surprise myself.“ Seven Ivy League teams will be competing Saturday, one of the most in conference history. Columbia, Harvard and Dartmouth have qualified on the men’s side, while Darmouth and Cornell will compete in the women’s race.

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The Tigers soon pulled ahead 4-2, as Copeland assisted Caro’s hard shot from the top right part of the circle.

Penn State converted another penalty corner to bring the game back within one goal.

Less than two minutes later, Bird tallied her second goal of the game unassisted when her shot deflected off of a Nittany Lion defender and into the goal. With just a few minutes left on the clock, Penn State scored once more to put the game at 5-4. A subsequent shot on goal got past sophomore goalie Anya Gersoff, but it hit the post and deflected out, preventing the game from going into overtime.

In Sunday’s second-round competition against Maryland, Princeton’s sustained efforts were just not enough to overcome the top seed and tournament host. Opening the scoring in the second minute of play, Kirby converted on a penalty corner with an assist by sophomore midfielder/back Teresa Benvenuti to put the Tigers ahead for the moment.

Three minutes later, the Terps

evened the score 1-1 with a deflection off of a corner. ¥Neither team would score again for almost 30 minutes. With 33 seconds remaining in the first half, Evans sent in a hard shot from out near the edge of the circle to put the Tigers back in the lead at 2-1. The lead was short-lived, however - just before the horn sounded to end the half, Maryland sent in a hard shot from five yards out to tie the game at 2-2.

A quick shot from the right post at the start of the second half gave Maryland the advantage 3-2. Close to 32 minutes of the game remained, but the score would not change despite repeated shot attempts from both teams. At the end of the game, the Terps had a 14-9 edge in shots, including 7-3 for shots on goal. Gersoff recorded four more saves, finishing the weekend with eight total.

Sunday’s loss marks the end of the Tigers’ 2013 season, which saw them fall short of a second consecutive NCAA title.

“I think everyone played amazingly, and it’s just unfortunate how the final score ended up,” Benvenuti said. “We, without a doubt, gave Maryland their hardest game of the season, and we can hold our heads high for that.”

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and refusing to lose it for nearly 13 minutes. Despite shooting nine of 21 from the field and four of 13 from beyond the arc — an uncharacteristically inaccurate half for Princeton — the squad entered halftime trailing by just two points at 33-31.

Butler kicked off the second half with a 13-2 run, ripping open a 13-point lead in less than four minutes. During the run, Princeton picked up five team fouls; 43 seconds later, the Bulldogs were playing with the team bonus and 15:29 of time on their side.

Back-to-back three-pointers

by Koon and Brase and a Butler free throw brought the score to

52-43 with under 14 minutes to play before a 6-0 run by the Tigers slashed the deficit to three, where it remained halfway through the second period.

Four double-bonus fouls helped Butler recapture its double-digit advantage with 5:40 remaining, but a layup from junior guard Ben Hazel sparked an 11-2 Princeton swing. The Tigers made only one free throw on both of their consecutive trips to the line, cutting the lead to seven before a threepointer from senior forward Will Barrett brought the game within four.

The two teams traded buckets, and Koon knocked down two free throws to make the score 69-67 in the final minute. With 14 seconds to go, the Tigers forced a turnover and called a time-out to discuss

their opportunity to tie or regain the lead for the first time in the second half. The squad moved the ball to their best scorer on a look that head coach Henderson liked, but Koon’s game-tying attempt was no good. “[I was] really pleased with the shot,” Henderson said. “Down 6759 with less than four [minutes], [I was] really happy to be getting a shot to tie it.”

The foul trouble Princeton incurred during the second half came at the perfect time for the Bulldogs, who had earned only five attempts from the charity stripe before halftime. Butler shot a miserable 36 percent from the field after the intermission, hitting only three of its 13 long-range tries. Meanwhile, the Tigers had returned to their usual shooting ways, knocking

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down four of seven second-half looks from downtown en route to a nine-of-18 period from the field.

In a half that otherwise heavily favored the visitors, Butler’s ability to draw fouls produced 16 of its 37 second-period points and helped it to escape victorious.

Princeton received its fair share of whistles as well, but it just failed to take advantage of them.

The Tigers connected on only 23 of the staggering 37 foul shots they took, resulting in an ugly 62.2 percent for the night. The figure falls 10 percent short of last year’s mark — Princeton finished the year at 72.3 percent of 483 attempts — and pales in comparison to last week’s impressive 13 of 16 showing.

Coach Henderson said that in addition to missing out on the scoring opportunities provided

by its free-throw line visits, his team struggled to retain its usual offensive flow after the unusually frequent stoppages. When asked if the game’s 48 total foul calls affected his team’s rhythm, he responded with a rhetorical question.

“What’s it like to watch it?” he asked.

The head coach’s takeaways from the heartbreaker were not all negative, though. His focus on improving Princeton’s rebounding throughout the preseason paid off, as the Tigers won the boards battle 33-30.

“I thought we came into a tough place to play and competed to win,” said Henderson. “There’s no moral victories here, but I like this team.”

Koon led the team in scoring for

the second-straight game with 21 points, while Brase’s 15 points and 11 rebounds earned him his second career double-double. Meanwhile, freshman forward Spencer Weisz added nine points and five rebounds, hitting two of his four three-point attempts and posting the team’s only shooting percentage above .500, albeit only on five attempts. Weisz has received more than 30 minutes of playing time in each of his first two games, and he appears to have solidified his role as a significant contributor in Henderson’s offense.

The team is playing at a high level even in the absence of Bray, who is eyeing a return to action sometime within the next two weeks. His squad’s next test comes this Wednesday at 7 p.m., when the Tigers will host Lafayette.

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The women’s basketball team improved over the course of its season-opening loss MARIST 58 to RutPRINCETON 81 gers, and it picked up right where it left off Sunday with an authoritative 81-58 throttling of defending MAAC champion Marist.

The story of the preseason for the Tigers (1-1) was the loss of Niveen Rasheed ’13, far and away the team’s leading scorer during her time at Princeton. Against the Red Foxes (0-3), the Tigers were not lacking on offense.

Four of Princeton’s five starters reached double digits as senior forward Kristen Helmstetter led the team with 18 points.

The game turned into a blowout but was close for most of the first half. The Tigers and the Red Foxes traded blows for 15 minutes before a layup and two free throws from sophomore guard Amanda Berntsen gave Princeton a lead it

The No. 8 field hockey team staged an impressive comeback against No. 9 Penn State in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday but fell to top-ranked Maryland in the quarterfinals the next day, failing to defend its 2012 national title.

Princeton (14-5 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) received an automatic bid to the tournament after sweeping the Ivy League but drew Penn State (13-6, 5-1 Big Ten), which had handed the Tigers a 4-3 loss earlier in the season, and Maryland (22-1, 6-0 ACC), the host and favorite to win the tournament.

“We got put in a really tough bracket, and we gave it our all,” senior back Amanda Bird said. “[Sunday’s] game against Maryland was a really hard-fought game of high intensity that felt like the caliber of a national championship game.”

The Tigers dominated possession during Saturday’s first round matchup against Penn State, but senior midfielder and 2012 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Julia Reinprecht went down with an injury in the first quarter of play, forcing Princeton to make some readjustments. When the Tigers pulled out the win, it was due to their depth and versatility.

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SETH MERKIN MOROKOFF :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

No. 1 Maryland stopped No. 8 Princeton short of its second straight NCAA Championship.

Senior midfielder Michelle Cesan and junior midfielder Sydney Kirby stepped up their game in the center midfield spots, helping the team to hold its shape and stay organized. The duo forced the Nittany Lions to commit many turnovers and continuously frustrated their attackers.

In the first four minutes, freshman midfielder/striker Cat Caro drew the goalie out of the cage, attracted the defense’s attention and passed the ball quickly to junior striker Allison Evans. Evans sent the ball into the back of the net to put the Tigers ahead 1-0. Five minutes later, Penn State evened the score with a successful penalty corner deflection. At the midpoint of the first half, the Nittany Lions earned their only lead of the game with a hard shot from five yards out. Answering back to tie the game at two heading into halftime, Evans sent a pass from the top of the circle to sophomore striker Maddie Copeland, who was waiting near the post and found the net.

Less than two minutes into the second half, Cesan served the ball on a penalty corner to freshman back Annabeth Donovan, who stopped it for Bird to come and finish. Princeton had set the tone and regained the lead for the first time since 3:53 into the game.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Men and women head to NCAA Championships

By Adam Fisch senior writer

For the first time since 2010, both the men’s and women’s cross-country teams are traveling together to the NCAA Championships. Racing in the Mid-Atlantic Regional this past Friday, both teams gutted it out over the tough course at Lehigh to qualify.

Taking no chances, the men placed second to grab one of the two automatic qualifying spots. The women came in fifth in a deep field but were awarded an at-large bid later in the weekend.

“After Heps [where Princeton placed second], we wanted to go to regionals and not only qualify for nationals, but prove to ourselves that we’re fit and ready to roll,” senior co-captain Alejandro Arroyo

Yamin said. “Coach [Jason Vigilante] told us to run as if going to nationals depended on getting the auto spots.

In the end, it was true; we wouldn’t have made it otherwise.”

Intent on getting good positioning early in the race, the men got out hard over the first mile. Arroyo Yamin set himself up in the lead, running a fast first kilometer before settling in.

“We went out really well — the best we have all season,” Arroyo Yamin said. “We wanted to get up in the top 20; we didn’t want to have to come back from having the entire Georgetown or Villanova team jump out in front of us from the start.”

Working together throughout the course of the race, Arroyo Yamin, senior Tyler Udland and junior Sam Pons set the pace for the Tigers. Racing the extended postseason 10-ki-

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lometer distance for the first time this year, the men worked on staying focused and in control through the middle miles.

“Everyone hates switching to 10K. It’s mentally tough; it’s longer than the regular 8K,” Arroyo Yamin said.

“But I think our team benefits from those extra two kilometers. We’re more distance-focused. It works well with the way we progress in a race.”

Sticking close together until the finish line, the Tiger men packed all five of their scoring runners in the top 20. Udland finished first for Princeton, placing sixth in 29 minutes, 49 seconds. Arroyo Yamin came in seventh at 29:51, while Pons took 11th in 30:11.

Senior co-captain Chris Bendtsen and junior Eddie Owens finished in 17th and 19th place, respectively.

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MARY HUI :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The men’s cross country team won an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship on Friday.

HOCKEY

Butler squeaks past Men split exciting weekend, women tie No. 5 Boston College Princeton

By Andrew Steele staff writer

By John Wolfe staff writer

For the second-straight week, the men’s basketball team (1-1) took the court without its emotional leader and captain, senior guard T.J. Bray. Following last weekend’s 67-50 shellacking of Florida A&M, Princeton headed to Indianapolis to face a tougher squad in Butler (2-0), which has reached two NCAA Finals games in the past four years.

PRINCETON 67 Stellar offensive performances BUTLER 70 by sophomore forward Hans Brase and junior forward Denton Koon helped Princeton net exactly 67 points again, but a last-second chance to force overtime rimmed out and gave Butler a three-point victory.

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The men’s hockey team provided a weekend of wild finishes for fans at Baker Rink, splitting Friday’s and Saturday’s games with a victory over Dartmouth (0-8 overall, 0-6 ECAC) and a loss to Harvard (3-4-1, 2-4-1). Facing a three-goal deficit against the Big Green, the Tigers (2-7, 1-5) scored four unanswered goals and topped that off with a walk-off overtime goal by senior forward Andrew Ammon to win 5-4.

The next night, Princeton cut Harvard’s 4-1 lead to one goal in the final period but fell 5-3 as the Crimson tallied a last-second goal on an empty net.

The Tigers earned their first in-league points with the win.

“We’re definitely moving forward,” senior forward Jack Berger said. “I think, on the whole, we played well. We didn’t get a couple of bounces, and we definitely need to clean things up.

But we’re definitely making strides from where we were at the beginning of the year.”

Friday night, Dartmouth had put together a three-goal lead with seven minutes left in the first period. A power play stemming from a cross-check called on junior defender Tom Kroshus led to the second goal, with the third coming as Tim O’Brien broke away off a deflected shot and took the puck through the Princeton defense and past senior goaltender Sean Bonar.

Princeton’s response came during a twominute power play with under five left in the first period. Sophomore forward Mike Ambrosia ripped a shot into the crossbar for what was called a goal, but on video replay the referees reversed the call. Soon after, junior forward Tyler Maugeri fed freshman forward Ryan Siiro, who scored the Tigers’ first goal to narrow the score to 3-1.

In the second period Princeton scored its second power play goal as junior forward Tucker Brockett fed Maugeri, who flipped the puck

past Dartmouth goaltender Cab Morris. Brockett, who was involved in all four of the Tigers’ goals, leads the team in points and assists with 11 and nine.

Under three minutes later, junior forward Aaron Kesselman found Ambrosia streaking to the crease for the tying goal.

“When we go down on the scoreboard, we want to stay positive,” Berger said. “We really believe we have a team that can be successful.

And if we keep working hard and keep believing in our systems, at some point we’ll get the bounces and things will turn around.”

Early in the third period, Ammon maneuvered in from the wing and beat the Big Green’s goalie to the top corner. After Brett Patterson turned a def lected save into the net to tie things at 4-4, the remaining 8:35 ran down and sent the game to overtime.

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